When it comes to temperature and humidity, what pianos crave more than anything is consistency. You wouldn’t buy a car without your mechanic looking at it first, would you? Climate Control Installation There are lots of pianos out there, and Underdog will make sure you get the right instrument for you. Time packs a punch to these instruments! Underdog can help get your piano back up to where it was performing in its younger years with this service. Sometimes, your piano needs some extra work to make it the best little piano it could ever be.
Underdog can take care of that for you too. Regulation ensures that all of the mechanical parts of your instrument are functioning well, an essential part of maintaining a healthy piano. If your piano hasn't been tuned for a while, if the weather changed recently, or even if it has been moved to a different place - it may need some bigger changes to its tuning. Wherever it sits – concert hall or living room – we will make the piano sound its best. But her greatest joy is her doggie friend, Oscar, the inspiration for her logo design and business name. For non-musical outlets, she takes part in Krav Maga, rock climbing, and the occasional running event. Then, in 2016, she began attending the North Bennet Street School for Piano Technology. After graduating, Tessa moved to Boston and apprenticed with a technician who showed her the basics of piano repair and regulation. During her senior year of college, she shadowed a technician in New Orleans, watching him tune in bars and historic sites like Preservation Hall, where he let Tessa turn her first tuning pin. She was first exposed to piano work while watching her parents' technician tune their piano. Call to let me know how I can serve you PrevNext. Tessa received a BA in Music from Tulane University in 2015. My mission here is to provide the highest quality piano tuning services to you at competitive rates. Her childhood piano was a Baldwin Acrosonic spinet, so spinets will always have a special place in her heart. She grew up all over the Northeast, but she spent most of her formative years in central Maine. I have been thing in coastal Maine for 25 years and never have I seen a better job.Tessa Cutler-Wood is a Registered Piano Technician and the owner of Underdog Pianos.
So the purpose of the letter is nothing more than to say Congratulations on a job well don. I remarked to Alden that the previous tuner and I had agreed on every score. I spent two hours tuning this piano and in that time I was able to learn some of the quirks of this piano and to see how the previous tuner had dealt with them. As far as I could tell the job was flawless.Īnd the tuning.the piano obviously has not stabilized from the rebuild and the movements between Maine and NJ but the tuning was really not bad when I walked in the door. I looked hard to find any faults with your work, but I couldn't find any. And so this was the setting of my first tuning on this piano. Alden has a modern home and has the piano in a room with a vaulted ceiling. I am a technician in Blue Hill Maine and yesterday I had the pleasure of tuning the 1907 Mason and Hamlin that you rebuilt for Alden Monberg of Castine.